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Beth Peet had never been on a roller coaster. But she had a friend named Julia Grimm. Julia was a little more adventurous than Beth, or perhaps just more curious. Last Memorial Day, reported USA Today, the two high school students traveled from their hometown of Montoursville, Pennsylvania, to Hershey Park, for a Weird Al Yankovic concert; while there, Julia took Beth up on one of the park's wild rides. Last week adventure beckoned again. Both girls had a chance to go on the Montoursville High School French club's excursion to France. Beth, given a choice...
...terrible choice: they were scheduled to leave at midnight for their flight to Honduras. They convened several times during the day, and students changed their mind frequently. But by nightfall at least 10 of the 15 decided to go ahead. To take another chance on the roller coaster...
...jumped from $13 per share to $32.25 when it began trading in April and soon hit a high of $43. Last Friday, however, Yahoo! was searching for the bottom, at $17.50. "The IPOs that came with the most sizzle, like the Internet search engines, have gone on a roller-coaster ride," notes Rodney Goldstein, managing partner of Frontenac, a Chicago-based venture-capital firm...
...latest movie, the erst-while superstar delivers a captivating, many-sided performance that ironically succeeds most when Murphy exaggerates and demonizes the very character that launched him to stardom--the brash, vulgar fast-talker able to one-up anyone. But returning constantly to the lower end of the roller coaster -- bathroom humor and insipid romance -- the movie acquires a wearying, frustrating rhythm of unbearable idiocy alternating with high-quality hilarity...
...coaster ride, High Roller, is a mild high, a fifth of a mile high. The coaster circles the pod three times in just under a minute, reaching a granny-at-the-wheel top speed of 35 m.p.h. That's fast enough to italicize the giddiness and slow enough for you to dare to look out on the Vegas panorama. Toward the end the track climbs; your car takes a few nice, scary jolts--and you briefly join Stupak in his nightmare...